CARROT Weather Introduces CarPlay App and Automatic Live Activities

[MacRumors]

The popular weather app CARROT Weather today was updated with two key new features: CarPlay support and automatic Live Activities.

When accessed via CarPlay, CARROT Weather becomes a navigation app like Google Maps. You can enter your destination and receive turn-by-turn directions, with the added benefit of being able to view the weather along your driving route. The weather features include live radar, severe weather warnings, wind speeds, visibility levels, and more.

CARROT Weather's turn-by-turn directions are as snarky as its weather forecasts, so prepare for remarks such as "turn left on Rodeo Drive, meatbag," or "you went the wrong way, idiot, now I have to recalculate your entire route."

With auto-starting Live Activities, CARROT Weather's next-hour precipitation chart can now start automatically when precipitation is in the area. Users will receive a notification around 15 minutes before rain or snow begins, and then a Live Activities widget will continuously appear on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island until the precipitation stops. Previously, you had to open the app to start a Live Activity each time.

Both new features require a CARROT Weather Premium subscription.

CARROT Weather version 6.2 is available in the App Store.

Article Link: CARROT Weather Introduces CarPlay App and Automatic Live Activities

 

[bradman83]

Weather along your route is a useful feature and one I'm surprised Apple or Google haven't already incorporated into their respective Maps apps.

 

[contacos]

I was expecting a weather "widget" as a smaller tile next to maps and music app. Kind of disappointed that isn't the case.

 

[TVGenius]

Still insane that Apple won't allow weather-only apps like RadarScope to use CarPlay, but somehow once you add snarky navigation it's less distracting.

 

[smithrh]

Weather on CarPlay has been a missing element. I also think it should be built in but nice to see it arrive.

Yes, I'm aware that there have been a few other apps, but I've also heard that they sell your personal data, which Carrot claims not to.

 

[johnediii]

How long until Apple just buys them and adds a weather layer to Maps?

 

[arthurgd3]

Weather along your route is a useful feature and one I'm surprised Apple or Google haven't already incorporated into their respective Maps apps.

Living in LA, even though I see the appeal of this feature, the weather rarely varies here to the extent that it's crucial I see the weather between origin and destination in a maps app but definitely places that have much more inclimate and unpredictable weather this feature would be really useful.

 

[gank41]

I’ve been asking for this for forever. I’m so happy today to go for a drive.

 

[miamialley]

Live activity only via paid subscription. Hopefully Apple will enable live activity for weather and kill this app. Not only do you need a paid subscription, but you need the upgraded ‘ultra’ subscription. Bleeding you for every dime.

 

[Mr. Heckles]

How long until Apple just buys them and adds a weather layer to Maps?

They better not.

 

[Mr. Heckles]

Live activity only via paid subscription. Hopefully Apple will enable live activity for weather and kill this app. Not only do you need a paid subscription, but you need the upgraded ‘ultra’ subscription. Bleeding you for every dime.

😂😂😂 yeah… that alone will “kill” this app. Carrot does a lot more and the fact I can change the source where I get my weather is worth it right there.

 

[OwlBundy]

Live activity only via paid subscription. Hopefully Apple will enable live activity for weather and kill this app. Not only do you need a paid subscription, but you need the upgraded ‘ultra’ subscription. Bleeding you for every dime.

live activity is not the reason people use carrot. Carrot can disable live activities or apple can add it or both and it will have zero affect on carrot or their users.

 

[Macalicious2011]

We got a weather app in CarPlay before we got GTA6.

 

[DocMultimedia]

How long until Apple just buys them and adds a weather layer to Maps?

I'm sure using Dark Sky (which they bought a few years ago) would let them do a similar thing if they wanted to.

 

[HJM.NL]

How long until Apple just buys them and adds a weather layer to Maps?

Didn’t Apple bought a weather app recently? I thought it was this app, but I’m mistaken.

 

[clayj]

I can't believe Apple haven't yet incorporated weather into CarPlay, especially when driving to a specific destination. I want the car to tell me if I am about to drive into an area where it is raining or foggy.

 

[clayj]

Didn’t Apple bought a weather app recently? I thought it was this app, but I’m mistaken.

That was Dark Sky.

 

[anakin44011]

What a confusing subscription model
- Premium says it includes a CarPlay app
- Ultra says features everything from Premium, plus a CarPlay app 🤔
- Premium family includes everything from Ultra for a whole family, yet under Family Sharing, it says the "some in-app purchases and subscriptions may be sharable"

...and Premium family isn't listed in the In-App Purchases

Someone from marketing really needs to put some care into this. It makes them look amateurish.

 

[miamialley]

😂😂😂 yeah… that alone will “kill” this app. Carrot does a lot more and the fact I can change the source where I get my weather is worth it right there.

live activity is not the reason people use carrot. Carrot can disable live activities or apple can add it or both and it will have zero affect on carrot or their users.

Kill the selling point for that feature then. It’s the only reason I downloaded the app.

 

[Radeon85]

That's actually pretty cool.

 

[bradman83]

Before Apple brought Weather to the iPad and Mac I was happy to pay for Carrot because they had a great iPad app and widgets compared to the other ad-ridden weather apps out there (looking at you Weather Channel). The Mac app was woefully outdated and didn't support Big Sur or later widgets and the developer kept saying a new version was coming, but wound up just making the iPad version available on Mac instead. Not even a Catalyst Mac port. That left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth so I opted to just use the Apple Weather app once it was available across the board. The only thing I miss is the Watch version of Carrot being able to show radar loops.

 

[subjonas]

Live activity only via paid subscription. Hopefully Apple will enable live activity for weather and kill this app. Not only do you need a paid subscription, but you need the upgraded ‘ultra’ subscription. Bleeding you for every dime.

I won’t pay a subscription for apps that don’t warrant it, but I’m willing to pay a subscription for apps that offer some kind of continuous service because then it would warrant it. In this case someone/thing has to continually aggregate and feed me new weather data so it only seems fair that I should continually pay for that (by the way most of the population has grown accustomed to getting data for “free”, but many of them don’t realize it’s not really free—nothing is). How much and how often I’m willing to pay is the question, and that would depend on how much I use and depend on the service. This is something I would only use on road trips, which is maybe once or twice a year, so I wouldn’t pay a lot.

 

[Remy149]

Live activity only via paid subscription. Hopefully Apple will enable live activity for weather and kill this app. Not only do you need a paid subscription, but you need the upgraded ‘ultra’ subscription. Bleeding you for every dime.

I’ve been using this app years before live activities was a thing. The Apple Watch complications is one of my favorite things about it

 

[shakopeemn]

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[Crickster]

Kill the selling point for that feature then. It’s the only reason I downloaded the app.

Live activities still work, the app just needs to be open. This change looks to make them automatic, while I do agree they put too much behind a paywall at the end of the day they are a business and it is still a top tier product.